Loading...I continue here with my discussion of the book of 1 Clement, probably unknown to many people on the blog, but an important work written at about the time of some of some of the writings of the New Testament – or so I’ll be arguing in the post after this. First I need to say something about the author. Why is it attributed to someone named Clement? Could this really have been written by a first-century pope (i.e., the Bishop of the church in Rome)?
Again, I am taking this information from the Introduction to the letter, which I give in a new English translation (with the Greek text on the facing page) in the first volume of my Apostolic Fathers in the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press, 2003).
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Hello Bart/Dr Ehrman
I picked up a retirement card for yourself today.
I’m assuming your standard address at University of Chapel Hill is fine seen as you’re not leaving until 7th of December?
Thanks.
Yup!
Hello Dr.Bart Erhman
I have read your blog for years and came the conclusion that there are naturalistic explanations for the ressurection of Jesus but that dosent mean Jesus could not have been raised .In my mind its just a matter of world view like Dale Alison said. It depends do you belive in miracles or not. What do you think?
I don’t think believing in miracles in itself gives you any better access to the past than not believing in them. Even when I was a Christian believer I knew that historicans cannot demonstrate that a miracle happened.
Hello Dr.Bart Erhman
Are there critical scholars that think you can prove the ressurection of Jesus? Or do some critical scholars think that the supernaturalitic explanation for the ressurection of Jesus is so much better then the naturalitic ones that it almost certanliy means that Jesus did rise from the dead?
There are certainly critical scholars who *say* they can (N. T. Wright). I think they completely misunderstand what historians can and cannot do.